# Don't you think Obama is making a huge mistake in pissing off all the wrong people? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 14, 2013, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-think-obama-is-making-a-huge-mistake-in-pissing-off-all-the-wrong-people/658296 "2013-05-14T04:33:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-think-obama-is-making-a-huge-mistake-in-pissing-off-all-the-wrong-people/658296/61 "2013-05-20T03:51:12Z")
Not when they knock the mistress up and lie about it. The lying is actually worse than the affair. Edwards really disgraced himself by having a campaign worker claim it was his baby. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-think-obama-is-making-a-huge-mistake-in-pissing-off-all-the-wrong-people/658296/62 "2013-05-20T03:56:22Z")
OK, so I didn’t follow all the details of that case. Yeah, that is pretty sleazy. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-think-obama-is-making-a-huge-mistake-in-pissing-off-all-the-wrong-people/658296/63 "2013-05-20T03:59:22Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Heck, even if Edwards did have an affair in office, presidents have had affairs without resigning. Not that I want to be agreeing with **adaher** on…well, anything, but a lot of the outrage against Edwards was out of sympathy for his wife, who had recently had her cancer come out of remission. The campaign’s line had been that the two were very in love and that she was supporting his campaign while he supported her fight against the disease. The revelation of the affair threw all of that down in flames. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-think-obama-is-making-a-huge-mistake-in-pissing-off-all-the-wrong-people/658296/64 "2013-05-20T18:18:37Z")
I agree with the OP, if Obama doesn’t knock it off at this rate he won’t win another presidential election. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-think-obama-is-making-a-huge-mistake-in-pissing-off-all-the-wrong-people/658296/65 "2013-05-20T18:22:48Z")
Didn’t hurt Bush much to suck, but it sure hurt John McCain. If Obama does poorly enough, no one connected to him will be able to win an election. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-think-obama-is-making-a-huge-mistake-in-pissing-off-all-the-wrong-people/658296/66 "2013-05-20T18:26:18Z")
This thread really does not belong in Elections. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-think-obama-is-making-a-huge-mistake-in-pissing-off-all-the-wrong-people/658296/67 "2013-05-20T18:51:14Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Didn’t hurt Bush much to suck, but it sure hurt John McCain. If Obama does poorly enough, no one connected to him will be able to win an election. Yeah, as a registered Democrat I just don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t have a conservative telling me what new non issue I should be outraged by. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-think-obama-is-making-a-huge-mistake-in-pissing-off-all-the-wrong-people/658296/68 "2013-05-20T19:07:24Z")
You aren’t the GOP’s intended audience. Dead enders aren’t worth courting. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-think-obama-is-making-a-huge-mistake-in-pissing-off-all-the-wrong-people/658296/69 "2013-05-20T19:16:27Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > You aren’t the GOP’s intended audience. Dead enders aren’t worth courting. You owe me a new irony meter. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-think-obama-is-making-a-huge-mistake-in-pissing-off-all-the-wrong-people/658296/70 "2013-05-20T20:02:12Z")
Nope. He’s totally serious. Look you right in the monitor, say it, and not even blink. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-think-obama-is-making-a-huge-mistake-in-pissing-off-all-the-wrong-people/658296/71 "2013-05-20T20:11:33Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Yeah, as a registered Democrat I just don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t have a conservative telling me what new non issue I should be outraged by. You mean you aren’t concerned that Obama is making a huge mistake and needs to take into account suggestions from conservatives when considering future actions? I’d be concerned. Very concerned. It’s only in the best interests of the President that conservatives are expressing these concerns. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-think-obama-is-making-a-huge-mistake-in-pissing-off-all-the-wrong-people/658296/72 "2013-05-20T20:13:27Z")
Yes…these concerns show that Obama needs to bridge the gap between himself and the gruff attitudes of the GOP… ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2013, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-think-obama-is-making-a-huge-mistake-in-pissing-off-all-the-wrong-people/658296/73 "2013-06-06T17:35:29Z")
> [@Gagundathar](#): > > …perhaps,the public will become more savvy about all of this and vote for people who are not just the lesser evil, but a positive good. Hah. Sorry. Didn’t mean to make everyone roll their eyes. Elections are multiple choice not fill in the blank (at least not at the POTUS level) > [@adaher](#): > > Hardly. I’m a coveted swing voter. You just get taken for granted. Ever heard of “hippie punching”? Democrats do that a lot and they do it for my benefit. no offense but you frequently seem more like you swing between the Republican party and the Tea party. > [@adaher](#): > > I am on economic issues, sure. But I also know that the Republicans run a lot of horrible candidates and many of them aren’t focused on my issues, instead choosing to run on a religious right agenda. That’s when Democrats can win my vote, and they often do. When you only vote for one party no matter what, your vote doesn’t count. I have voted party line Democrat since 2003 and mostly Republican for 15 years before that. The recent gun debate is swinging me back towards the center. I’ll probably still vote party line Democrat but I’m not sending them money anymore and when they ask why, I say because of guns. I probably won’t for Mark Warner again. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-think-obama-is-making-a-huge-mistake-in-pissing-off-all-the-wrong-people/658296/74 "2013-06-07T05:55:40Z")
Warner’s a good man and I can’t think of any Virginia Republican who should replace him. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-think-obama-is-making-a-huge-mistake-in-pissing-off-all-the-wrong-people/658296/75 "2013-06-27T18:29:37Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Warner’s a good man and I can’t think of any Virginia Republican who should replace him. Tom Davis? And I don’t necessarily want to replace him with a Republican, there are several Democrats that I could vote for. I won’t vote for governor vaginal probe over Warner but I’m not voting for Warner either. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-you-think-obama-is-making-a-huge-mistake-in-pissing-off-all-the-wrong-people/658296.md?page=3)